{"id":17704,"date":"2026-02-02T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:31:29","slug":"charter-change-push-seen-as-threat-to-judicial-independence-businessworld-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/charter-change-push-seen-as-threat-to-judicial-independence-businessworld-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter change push seen as threat to judicial independence | BusinessWorld Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Enrique A. Africa, executive director of think tank IBON Foundation, said that the recent ruling had made it harder to hold officials accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe SC\u2019s ruling has the practical effect of bolstering impunity by making impeachment more difficult given how the House is so subject to partisanship and patronage,\u201d Mr. Africa said in a Messenger chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is precisely that partisanship and patronage that will be so influential in a Charter change process, rather than an impulse for democratic reforms,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partisanship and patronage that will be so influential in a Charter change process, rather than an impulse for democratic reforms<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":1770642958,"_expiration-date-type":"draft","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[2083],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17705,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/17705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}